September 2008 Archives
The Ducks receive a conditional 2009 draft pick in return -- the condition being, if the Kings trade O'Donnell during the season, the Ducks will get their third-round pick. So essentially, the Ducks give up the 36-year-old defenseman and his $1.25 million cap hit for nothing.
As for the salary cap, this puts the Ducks back under -- barely. By one estimate (my own), they're $25,000 under the $56.7 million cap ceiling. The team will want more breathing room once the regular season starts, as one AHL call-up could put them over the cap by virtue of the CBA's rules on such things.
More significantly, it leaves the Ducks without one of their steadiest blueliners since he was acquired from Phoenix midway through the 2005-06 season. Perhaps this means the Ducks are leaning toward Ken Klee, whom they acquired in the Mathieu Schneider deal last Friday.
... don't worry, they'll do it again next Tuesday:
Beginning Tuesday, Sept. 30, the Ducks will be featured each week on XM Satellite radio's "Hockey This Morning" with Scott Laughlin. A Ducks player or executive will join Scott every Tuesday morning throughout the season at 7:45 a.m. Pacific Time.
The show will also be carried on Sirius Satellite radio beginning on Tuesday, Oct. 7. Sirius customers can order XM's Home Ice channel by adding the "Best of XM of Sirius" package.
J.S. Giguere will be the first guest on the debut segment this Tuesday.
On the day he signed a two-year contract to stay in Anaheim, Selanne has two goals through regulation of a 4-4 tie game against Vancouver. More to come after it's over.
The Ducks signed Teemu Selanne to a 2-year contract worth $3.25 million the first year and $2 million the second. That translates to a $2.625 million cap hat, which once again puts the Ducks over the salary cap. No matter; they have 10 days to get back under and Teemu is a Duck through 2010. (I bold this because there's a no-trade clause.)
Continue reading Teemu, times two..
All those workouts with the Junior Kings worked! The trade is official.
It's official: Mathieu Schneider has been traded.
Continue reading Schneider traded to Atlanta..
The calls to the manager's office began after last night's game and were made official today.
Continue reading Ducks make some cuts..
Randy Carlyle got the night off from his postgame media obligations and the players, who were in the process of heading to the gym, weren't feeling especially loquacious. It's worth noting that Bobby Ryan wasn't laughing off his two-goal performance: He seemed legitimately relieved to have a small monkey off his back.
Continue reading Ducks 6, Sharks 4: Final thoughts..
Looks like the Ducks have this one locked up after trailing 4-2 to start the period. Corey Perry has scored twice in the third period, Bobby Ryan once (his second goal of the game) and Matt Stefanishion just got one past Thomas Greiss.
Good for Stefanishion, who is a LONGshot to make the team but could score some bonus points among the scouts from six opposing teams in the press box. And really, that's what this game is all about for the non-NHL guys: Earning the right to be packaged in the Mathieu Schneider trade.
Attendance was just announced at 15,243, but that's about as likely as a Kent Huskins fight ... oh wait.
This game has become notable for something I didn't see at all last year: A Kent Huskins fight. He went toe-to-toe with Ryan Clowe (sounds like the beginning of a good poem) and gave Clowe a bloody right eye and an undetermined right (fighting) hand injury. Huskins' face and hand appeared undamaged.
I plan to ask Kent after the game if he plans to fight more during the season.
The bad news: The Ducks gave up a short-handed goal to Devin Setoguchi with Scott Niedermayer, Francois Beauchemin, Bobby Ryan, Ryan Getzlaf and Eric Tangradi on the ice. It's tied 2-2 with 9:02 left.
Eight minutes in to the Ducks' first game, they have their first goal (Bobby Ryan), first fight (Brian Sutherby) and second fight (Brennan Evans) already under their belts. The Ducks lead, 1-0.
Honda Center looks half-full (or half-empty if you're having a bad day); I'd put attendance between 7,000-9,000.
More updates as the game dictates.
Attn: Ducks fans scared off by season tickets.
From: Dept. of procrastination
Individual game tickets for the 2008-09 regular season (41 home games) will go on sale Saturday, Sept. 20 at 10 a.m. Tickets may be purchased online at ducks.nhl.com, or by phone with Ticketmaster at (714) 703-2545. Tickets may also be purchased in person at the Honda Center box office on a first-come, first-served basis. There is an eight-ticket limit per game for all regular season contests at Honda Center. The club will open the 2008-09 regular season schedule at Honda Center on Sunday, Oct. 12 vs.
Continue reading Re: Ducks regular-season tickets on sale Saturday..
Apparently scared off by his $5.75 million salary for next season, all 29 NHL teams passed on Ducks defenseman Mathieu Schneider, who cleared waivers at 9 a.m. this morning.
Continue reading Mathieu Schneider clears waivers..
... and no, Teemu Selanne isn't on the roster. And Mathieu Schneider is. (So much for letting all those good rumors get in the way of facts.)
The first day of camp will be Saturday, September 20 at Anaheim Ice. It's open to the public and replete with fan giveaways.
Continue reading Ducks' training camp roster, schedule announced..
But here's the true test of exactly HOW bored you are.
If you can make it through the entire text of Judge Cormac Carney's rejection of Henry Samueli's guilty plea, you might as well stick a fork in today. It's done.
(Samueli, for those not in the know, owns the Ducks.)
From http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2008/more/09/09/bulgaria.hockey.ap/index.html:
BRATISLAVA, Slovakia (AP) -- With more goals than minutes in the game, Slovakia's women's ice hockey team claimed an amazing 82-0 victory over Bulgaria in Olympic qualifying.
Slovakia outshot the Bulgarians 139-0 during the 60-minute game, played in Latvia. The margin of victory is a record for a women's International Ice Hockey Federation-sanctioned event.
"We took it as training," Slovakia coach Miroslav Karafiat said after Saturday's game.
About J.P.
J.P. Hoornstra has been covering the Anaheim Ducks since 2007. Eight months after the University of Wisconsin won its third NCAA hockey championship, he was born in a frigid Madison winter. He betrayed his blue-blooded beginnings by graduating from UCLA in 2003, and welcomes any and all dialogue on the finer points of hockey.
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